When I'm Acting, I'm In

I Feel More Irish Than English. I Feel Freer Than British, More Visceral, With A Love Of Language. Shot Through With Fire In Some Way. That's Why I Resist Being Appropriated As The Current Repository Of Shakespeare On The Planet. That Would Mean I'm Part Of The English Cultural Elite, And I Am Utterly Ill-fitted To Be.

I Looked At The 1950 Animated Film [cinderella], I Read A Couple Of Editions Of The Fairy Tale That I Have In My House And All Of It Seemed To Say That There Was Room For A Version That Delivered, In This Story, Which Seems To Invite A Feeling In People And I Think That Is Some Version Of A Classical World.

I Only Really Cast People Who Are Desperate To Be In It - Who Were Dying To Be In It, Whose Talent I Believed In And Were Dead Ready To Do The Work That Was Necessary.

As Soon As Someone I Don’t Respect Tells Me I Can’t Do Something, It Just Makes Me Want To Do It Even More.

The Best Actors, I Think, Have A Childlike Quality. They Have A Sort Of An Ability To Lose Themselves. There's Still Some Silliness.